William H. Perkins Jr.

      JACKSON, Miss. (BP)--Dear Heavenly Father,
      I hurt at my innermost. I ache to the depths of my spirit. I am crushed. It is here, in the valley, that I plead with you to gather me in your strong, loving Daddy arms and hold me until I regain my spiritual strength.
      I knew the world was an evil place, but even at 46 years of age I am astonished at the extent of the evil that indeed exists all around us.

Mississippians gathered at noon on September 14 on the south steps of the New Capitol as part of the national day of prayer declared by the U.S. President George W. Bush, in response to the national tragedy in New York City and Washington.

JACKSON, Miss. (BP)--Sixty-eight new missionaries were commissioned before thousands of onlookers at First Baptist Church, Jackson, in what is believed to be the first such North American Mission Board service in Mississippi.

BLUE MOUNTAIN, Miss. (BP)--Bettye Rogers Coward, academic vice president at Mississippi College in Clinton, has been selected as the seventh president of Blue Mountain (Miss.) College.

CLINTON, Miss. (BP)--Mississippi College President Howell W. Todd has announced that he will retire after seven years at the Baptist-affiliated school in Clinton to spend more time with family and get involved in volunteer projects.

JACKSON, Miss. (BP)–A total of 1,558 messengers from the 2,073 Mississippi Baptist churches met in the 165th session of the Mississippi Baptist Convention (MBC) October 31-November 1 at First Church, Jackson, and ratified without opposition a record Cooperative Program (CP) budget of $30,047,997 for 2001. Messengers also reelected Kermit McGregor, pastor of First Church, Mendenhall, […]

CLINTON, Miss. (BP)–The pioneering Mississippi Missionary Parents Fellowship has celebrated its five-year anniversary in undergirding parents of Southern Baptist missionaries. It was in Mississippi that the idea of forming such a group first took hold. Bill Causey, who retired two years ago as executive director-treasurer of the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board, encouraged the parents to […]

JACKSON, Miss. (BP)--We live in a confused nation. During the same week the federal government approved the hemorrhagic drug regimen RU 486for abortion -- something it was never intended to do -- pro-lifers were able to push the Born-alive Infants Protection Act (HR 4292) through the U.S. House of Representatives.

SIDON, Miss. (BP)–The oft-heard phrase, “Children, eat your vegetables,” will soon have a special meaning to residents of Baptist Children’s Village campuses around Mississippi, thanks to the efforts of the state convention’s Agricultural Missions Fellowship. That’s because AMF is beginning what its members hope will be an annual campaign to put fresh, Mississippi-grown vegetables on […]

JACKSON, Miss. (BP)--Where there's a will, there's a way.